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161020 Michael Mol wrote: |
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> On 20 October 2016 at 14:25, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>> Using Gwenview with KDE 4, the thumbnail view showed images |
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>> in correct numerical order : image1 image2 ... image9 image10 ... . |
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>> With KDE 5, it's gone stupid : image1 image11 image12 ... |
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>> image 19 image2 image20 image21 ... |
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>> Is there a setting anywhere |
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>> to tell it to list files in the proper numerical order ? |
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> On Thursday, October 20, 2016 03:27:34 PM Andy Mender wrote: |
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>> You may be surprised, but this is the proper numerical order, |
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>> the way Windows Explorer normally does it. |
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You must be joking (no smile). |
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>> Only the 1st digit is taken into account as you noticed. |
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>> Care to try renaming the images to "image_xxx"? |
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Yes, I do care ! -- I could insert initial zeros, but it's a lot of work. |
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> No, it's not the proper numerical order. Yes, it's the proper sort |
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> for a sorting algorithm unaware that it's sorting strings |
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> with numeric components, such as a one examining input |
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> on a strictly codepoint-by-codepoint or character-by-character basis, |
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> but that's not the only way to sort. I'd suggest filing a bug. |
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> I don't know enough about collations to know |
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> whether or not localization is supposed to cover numeric sorting, |
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> but the old behavior was clearly better, from a human UI standpoint. |
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I'll consider a bug. My impression of KDE 5 is favorable so far, |
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so I would expect this is either configurable or an oversight. |
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Anyone else know more ? |
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